Bhuvan Unhelkar Senior Consultant

Bhuvan Unhelkar is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Business Technology Strategies and Business & Enterprise Architecture practices. He has more than two decades of strategic as well as hands-on professional experience in the information and communication technologies (ICT) industry. As a Founder of MethodScience.com, Dr. Unhelkar has notable practical consulting and training expertise in software engineering (object modeling, processes, and quality), enterprise architecture (including service-oriented architecture — SOA), project management, collaborative Web services, environmental responsibilities, and mobile business. His domain experience includes financial, insurance, government, as well as telecommunication organizations wherein he has created industry-specific SOAs, process maps, quality strategies, and business-transformation approaches.

Recently, Dr. Unhelkar has updated three large organizations (two banks and an insurance organization) in the use of composite agile and demonstrated the concept through training and workshops. His other courses over the past few years in the aforementioned areas have now been delivered to business executives and IT professionals globally, from Australia, the US, Canada, and the UK to China, India, Sri Lanka, New Zealand, and Singapore. Training courses delivered through MethodScience are consistently ranked highly by the participants. Dr. Unhelkar earned his PhD in the area of object orientation from the University of Technology, Sydney, in 1997. Subsequently, he designed and delivered courses on topics such as global information systems, object-oriented analysis and design, business process reengineering, and IT project management in the industry as well as across universities in Australia, China, and India.

Dr. Unhelkar leads the Mobile Internet Research and Applications Group (MIRAG) at the University of Western Sydney, where he is also an adjunct Associate Professor. He has authored/edited 14 books in the areas of collaborative business, globalization, mobile business, software quality, business analysis, business processes, and UML and has extensively presented and published papers and case studies. Dr. Unhelkar’s current research interests include the application of emerging technologies to enterprise architectures, business analysis in the context of agile, smart sourcing, and environmentally responsible business strategies. He is currently authoring two books: The Art of Practicing Agile: Applying Composite Agile Method and Strategy to Real Projects and Green IT: Strategies and Applications. Dr. Unhelkar is a sought-after speaker, a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society (elected to this prestigious membership grade in 2002 for distinguished contribution to the field of ICT), life member of the Computer Society of India, Rotarian at St. Ives (Paul Harris Fellow), discovery volunteer at NSW parks and wildlife, and a previous TiE Mentor. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.